Word: beset
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...either side of the harbor are seashore resorts. There are rugged cliffs always beset by the angry waves and long beaches upon which are crowded hotels and cottages...
...much stress was laid upon Biblical study when they were founded. Then he mentioned the sudden abandoning of this study in nearly all colleges in the socalled anti-Biblical period, and the influence that the students exercised over the country at large. He then passed to the temptations which beset the college man, and the aid that the Bible affords in resisting them, and in shaping a man's whole life. He advocated the courses as one of the greatest benefits obtainable in college...
...good nature and good disposition to be imposed upon. Marmaduke is the name of a wealthy Californian of the present day, whose palatial residence on "Nob Hill," where he keeps open house, is over-run by hangers-on, and whose boundless hospitality is shamefully abused. He is particularly beset by two so-called friends, who use his house as their own for selfish ends, the one to provide his daily food and lodgings, the other to secure a husband for his daughter. Interwoven with the main plot are the adventures of Marmaduke's god-son, Alfred Wemyss...
Professor Carpenter preached at Vesper Service in the Chapel yesterday afternoon from the text "Let us set aside the sin that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the race that is set before us," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. He said: When Paul wrote that, he had before him a vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes...
...have not fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by the rules. Even allowing for the difficulty of seeing the "slugging," if every man who had been seen "slugging" had been summarily dealt with this present outburst against the game would never have come. We realize fully the difficulties which beset an umpire-probably no man is in a less enviable position. Yet we venture to say that college spirit is fair enough to stand sturdily by an umpire in resolutely ruling out every man who shows himself no gentlemen. Here is the remedy-a general sentiment among players themselves against...